Siren: Blood Curse date and pricing

By Robert Purchese Published 4 July, 2008

Scary episodes for end of July.

Sony Europe has told Eurogamer that Siren: Blood curse will be released on 24th July.

This is the episodic PS3 reinterpretation of the scary PS2 original. It will be broken up into four downloadable chapters on the PlayStation Store.

Each chapter has three episodes in it and will cost GBP 4.99. Or you can snaffle up the whole lot in a full game download for GBP 19.99.

We had a chance to tip-toe our way through the first chapter recently, and were very impressed to find it immediately much more playable than any of the previous games.

Add vastly improved voice acting, atmosphere, audio and sumptuous visuals to that and you should be as excited as we are.

Check back soon for our in-depth look at the entire four chapters.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (26) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Hobo #1 4 years ago

    One in the eye to those on here crying about "OMG IT WILL END UP BEING £60 IN TOTAL!!1!" the other day.

  • Machetazo #2 4 years ago

    Can you clarify whether on not the appealingly priced complete "series" will be available on 24th July, as well please?

  • Hobo #3 4 years ago

    Hang on...am i understanding this right?

    Are all four parts going to be released at once? It's not going to be a periodic release?

    Can't they just do a full game and a demo? Its not as if people are going to rush out to buy parts 1 and 3 (or any other combination) is it?

    Seems a bit episodic for episodic's sake to me now? Still utterly psyched for this since Alone In The Dark dropped this summer's survival horror ball.

  • Machetazo #4 4 years ago

    Wait. There are 4 chapters, each containing 4 episodes...You can pick up all 4 chapters (so 16 eps) for the £19.99, yes? Then, of course, there's the added complication of each chapter/episode? (I hope not!) being 600 mbs...

    /faints
    Edited by 3 at 04/07/08 @ 11:32

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #5 4 years ago

    Each chapter has three episodes, sorry for shonky maths I was raised on the streets.

  • mischief #6 4 years ago

    Price is not the issue for me. Storage will be a deal breaker. How much space will all this lot take up?
    I love the Siren games, which is why I would much rather have this on a disc for keeps.

  • bad09 #7 4 years ago

    Nice price I was concerned about that. full game I think, looks good for £20 quid.

  • Machetazo #8 4 years ago

    Not to worry, Bertie. :) Besides, it's sure to be chapters costing the 600 mb, since they're what you download!
    /slaps self
    Edited by 2 at 04/07/08 @ 11:39

  • mikeck #9 4 years ago

    "Can you clarify whether on not the appealingly priced complete "series" will be available on 24th July, as well please?"

    Everything is available on the one day, four chapters and a full game. It was going to be released episodically, but this is no longer the case.

  • Machetazo #10 4 years ago

    Great, thanks!

  • Darren #11 4 years ago

    £19.99 for the full game... I'll be having that!!! :)

    If the game only has four chapters then why split it up into £4.99 portions? Oddly you'd save 3p downloading it separately! ;?

    How big is each chapter? How large is the whole game? Anyone know?

  • Darren #12 4 years ago

    Is this game also being released on disc?

  • HermitArcader #13 4 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:17:39 22-12-2011

  • myiagros #14 4 years ago

    For those wanting it on a blu ray disc, it has been reported that the asian blu ray release will have full english.

  • Azu #15 4 years ago

    AFAIK, the game will total at about 7,2GBs, give or take a few hundred MBs. Each episode is about 600MBs -> 12 episodes = 7,2GBs. And supposedly each episode is about 1-2 hours long, so the game will possibly take about 15 to 20 hours to finish, hopefully.

  • Kami #16 4 years ago

    Actually, I can't wait for this now...

    Not 100% sure about sticking in americans for the reinterpretation. It's like The Grudge - as gorgeous as Ms Michelle-Gellar is, felt really out of place. But then, that's Americans reimagining a Japanese idea. This is the Japanese reworking their own work and therefore I have a little more hope. (Not a lot more hope buthey, I'll take a grain of rice-sized amount over none!)

  • Kujata #17 4 years ago

    Stick it on a Blu-Ray and i'll buy a PS3...

  • Darren #18 4 years ago

    @Azu - Ta for da info! :)

    Sounds like Siren Blood Curse could be an Alone in the Dark beater then, which would be ironic considering it costs half the price and lasts twice as long! LOL

  • toy_brain #19 4 years ago

    Excellent news. Review scores permitting I'll be getting this for sure.

    I'm glad that Sony didnt give up on Siren after it turned out not to be the 'Hey look, its made by the guy who made Silen Hill' hit they were expecting. I think a large part of the problem was that it was just too 'Japanese' for the worldwide audience, and also too damn hard.
    The first problem seems to have been fixed (and its not a bad comprimise I guess - better than shifting the entire setting to the American mid-west or something), I just hope the second has too.

  • Apostle #20 4 years ago

    Does it have trophies?

  • Phily50 #21 4 years ago

    What are trophies?

  • PanStre #22 4 years ago

    What's a Firmware 2.4?

  • napalm68 #23 4 years ago

    4x4.99 = 19.96

    Or download the whole game for 19.99....

    LOL

    I'll but the Asian release that has the english language support

  • Kami #24 4 years ago

    I think a large part of the problem was that it was just too 'Japanese' for the worldwide audience, and also too damn hard.
    The first problem seems to have been fixed (and its not a bad comprimise I guess - better than shifting the entire setting to the American mid-west or something), I just hope the second has too.

    I hope the game is still challenging. Okay, yeah I agree that Siren was about as forgiving as a starved lion. But that was kind of an appeal too - for me anyway. Tone it down but I'd be very disappointed if it ended up too easy.

    Too many games today dumb down a bit too much. I yearn for a rock-'ard challenge.

  • drumbaby #25 4 years ago

    Looking forward to playing this!

  • napalm68 #26 4 years ago

    Kami - I hope the game is still challenging. Okay, yeah I agree that Siren was about as forgiving as a starved lion. But that was kind of an appeal too - for me anyway. Tone it down but I'd be very disappointed if it ended up too easy.

    Too many games today dumb down a bit too much. I yearn for a rock-'ard challenge.

    Yeah, I agree on Siren 1. Siren 2 was way more playable though, and more forgiving. The only complaint I had on Siren 2 was the non-linearity of it all sometimes made it real hard to figure out what thread you had to do next. You had this huge matrix of characters and timeslots and the interdependencies got real complex (eg, you had to ensure you did something in some other thread, and on that thread etc otherwise you were stuck - figuring what you missed was challenging).

    I'm hoping they have improved even more.